The Supreme Court in Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce upheld the application to the Michigan Chamber of Commerce, a nonprofit corporation funded by dues from members, three-quarters of whom are ...
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The Supreme Court in Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce upheld the application to the Michigan Chamber of Commerce, a nonprofit corporation funded by dues from members, three-quarters of whom are business corporations, of a Michigan law that forbids non-media corporations from using corporate treasury funds to make independent expenditures in connection with state elections for public office. The decision in Austin can be seen as resting on the view that business corporations are constrained in ways that systematically preclude them from cultivating civic virtue. Ironically, despite its often enormous wealth, the corporation is a paradigm of the materially dependent actor that has no choice but to look relentlessly to its self-interest. The modern corporation is operated for the sake of fictional shareholders, who are assumed to care only about maximizing the financial value of their shares, but, given the increasingly broad ownership of shares, shareholders also may well be employees of the company in which they hold stock or members of a community in which the corporation is an important economic presence. Union activity represents an effort at self-governance in the workplace, which requires consideration of and trade-offs among a variety of both material and nonmaterial goods.Less

Corporate Speech and Civic Virtue

Milton C. Regan

Published in print: 1998-10-15

The Supreme Court in Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce upheld the application to the Michigan Chamber of Commerce, a nonprofit corporation funded by dues from members, three-quarters of whom are business corporations, of a Michigan law that forbids non-media corporations from using corporate treasury funds to make independent expenditures in connection with state elections for public office. The decision in Austin can be seen as resting on the view that business corporations are constrained in ways that systematically preclude them from cultivating civic virtue. Ironically, despite its often enormous wealth, the corporation is a paradigm of the materially dependent actor that has no choice but to look relentlessly to its self-interest. The modern corporation is operated for the sake of fictional shareholders, who are assumed to care only about maximizing the financial value of their shares, but, given the increasingly broad ownership of shares, shareholders also may well be employees of the company in which they hold stock or members of a community in which the corporation is an important economic presence. Union activity represents an effort at self-governance in the workplace, which requires consideration of and trade-offs among a variety of both material and nonmaterial goods.

In this chapter, the author, a twenty-five-year-old woman prisoner in Michigan, shares her personal story of pregnancy, motherhood, the death of her father, and the disappearance of her husband. At ...
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In this chapter, the author, a twenty-five-year-old woman prisoner in Michigan, shares her personal story of pregnancy, motherhood, the death of her father, and the disappearance of her husband. At the time of writing she had been incarcerated since October 17, 1997. It was her first time being pregnant, and she was in prison. She was surprised that there were so many pregnant women in prison, including some who came just before their due dates. She became close with many of these women prisoners, and she was able to share her fears and worries with older women who had been through childbirth before.Less

Pregnancy, Motherhood, and Loss in Prison: A Personal Story

Kebby Warner

Published in print: 2010-01-25

In this chapter, the author, a twenty-five-year-old woman prisoner in Michigan, shares her personal story of pregnancy, motherhood, the death of her father, and the disappearance of her husband. At the time of writing she had been incarcerated since October 17, 1997. It was her first time being pregnant, and she was in prison. She was surprised that there were so many pregnant women in prison, including some who came just before their due dates. She became close with many of these women prisoners, and she was able to share her fears and worries with older women who had been through childbirth before.

Social critics have blamed Americans for homogenizing our culture. When travelers leave the interstates and head down the smaller highways and byways, they can still find curious survivals, pockets ...
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Social critics have blamed Americans for homogenizing our culture. When travelers leave the interstates and head down the smaller highways and byways, they can still find curious survivals, pockets of culture rendered unique, colorful, and interesting by their setting and story. Many of the people in Keweenaw work for Michigan Technological University. The fact that Keweenaw was held as the world's largest deposit of native copper made this place so unusual. Located on the western end of Upper Michigan, Keweenaw is a narrow, jagged finger of land about 70 miles long. It extends northeastward into Lake Superior, the greatest body of fresh water in the world. The Lake Superior basin provided almost all the copper used by prehistoric American Indians in the eastern portion of the United States. This copper urged the rise of an industry whose fortunes were tied back to the copper.Less

Company and Community: Copper Mining on Lake Superior

Larry Lankton

Published in print: 1993-02-25

Social critics have blamed Americans for homogenizing our culture. When travelers leave the interstates and head down the smaller highways and byways, they can still find curious survivals, pockets of culture rendered unique, colorful, and interesting by their setting and story. Many of the people in Keweenaw work for Michigan Technological University. The fact that Keweenaw was held as the world's largest deposit of native copper made this place so unusual. Located on the western end of Upper Michigan, Keweenaw is a narrow, jagged finger of land about 70 miles long. It extends northeastward into Lake Superior, the greatest body of fresh water in the world. The Lake Superior basin provided almost all the copper used by prehistoric American Indians in the eastern portion of the United States. This copper urged the rise of an industry whose fortunes were tied back to the copper.

Charles M. Conrad and George S. Bryan correctly perceived the fatal impact that northern Whigs' campaigns had on southern Whigs' allegiance to their old party. Outside of Wisconsin, Michigan, and ...
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Charles M. Conrad and George S. Bryan correctly perceived the fatal impact that northern Whigs' campaigns had on southern Whigs' allegiance to their old party. Outside of Wisconsin, Michigan, and perhaps Maine and Vermont, most northern Whigs, even in Indiana and Ohio, viewed the campaigns of 1854 as sui generis. They did not seek the creation of a permanent new northern party “based on merely sectional issues”—at least not in 1854. Instead, they hoped to resurrect disintegrating northern Whig organizations that year by exploiting anti-Nebraska, anti-slavery-extension sentiment to defeat the Democrats. Once they revivified the northern Whig party with those anticipated victories, they expected to rebuild bridges to southern Whig allies so the two sectional wings could rally again for the next presidential election. Nativism and prohibitionism produced an earthquake that confounded Whig expectations of a comeback on the Nebraska issue, transformed the political landscape, and caused “the dissolution of the Whig party” in all three states.Less

“Confusion Worse Confounded”

Michael F. Holt

Published in print: 2003-05-01

Charles M. Conrad and George S. Bryan correctly perceived the fatal impact that northern Whigs' campaigns had on southern Whigs' allegiance to their old party. Outside of Wisconsin, Michigan, and perhaps Maine and Vermont, most northern Whigs, even in Indiana and Ohio, viewed the campaigns of 1854 as sui generis. They did not seek the creation of a permanent new northern party “based on merely sectional issues”—at least not in 1854. Instead, they hoped to resurrect disintegrating northern Whig organizations that year by exploiting anti-Nebraska, anti-slavery-extension sentiment to defeat the Democrats. Once they revivified the northern Whig party with those anticipated victories, they expected to rebuild bridges to southern Whig allies so the two sectional wings could rally again for the next presidential election. Nativism and prohibitionism produced an earthquake that confounded Whig expectations of a comeback on the Nebraska issue, transformed the political landscape, and caused “the dissolution of the Whig party” in all three states.

This chapter explores Kirk’s life from his birth through his earning of an M.A. from Duke and his brief time spent working at Ford. It also considers the influence that the great American humanists ...
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This chapter explores Kirk’s life from his birth through his earning of an M.A. from Duke and his brief time spent working at Ford. It also considers the influence that the great American humanists Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More had on the young Michiganian. Finally, it offers an in-depth look at Kirk’s time at Duke University and his thesis on John Randolph of Roanoke.Less

Desert Humanist

Bradley J. Birzer

Published in print: 2015-10-19

This chapter explores Kirk’s life from his birth through his earning of an M.A. from Duke and his brief time spent working at Ford. It also considers the influence that the great American humanists Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More had on the young Michiganian. Finally, it offers an in-depth look at Kirk’s time at Duke University and his thesis on John Randolph of Roanoke.

Chapter 3 explores Kirk’s life from the end of his conscription in 1946 to the publication of his dissertation in 1953. It examines Kirk’s time in Scotland as well as the development of his ideas on ...
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Chapter 3 explores Kirk’s life from the end of his conscription in 1946 to the publication of his dissertation in 1953. It examines Kirk’s time in Scotland as well as the development of his ideas on conservatism as rooted in the thought of the Anglo-Irish statesman Edmund Burke. Finally, it retells the story of Kirk’s (in)famous resignation from Michigan State in the fall of 1953 and his determination to make his life as a private “man of letters.”Less

Recovering the Conservative Mind

Bradley J. Birzer

Published in print: 2015-10-19

Chapter 3 explores Kirk’s life from the end of his conscription in 1946 to the publication of his dissertation in 1953. It examines Kirk’s time in Scotland as well as the development of his ideas on conservatism as rooted in the thought of the Anglo-Irish statesman Edmund Burke. Finally, it retells the story of Kirk’s (in)famous resignation from Michigan State in the fall of 1953 and his determination to make his life as a private “man of letters.”

This chapter discusses another variant of related ideas that was dubbed 'lensless photography' in the USA. Emmett Leith, a research engineer at a military contract establishment, Willow Run ...
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This chapter discusses another variant of related ideas that was dubbed 'lensless photography' in the USA. Emmett Leith, a research engineer at a military contract establishment, Willow Run Laboratories in Michigan, conceived a technique of processing the images created by synthetic aperture radar. Gradually, from the mid-1950s, he extended these ideas by melding electrical engineering practice with physical optics, both of which were expanding rapidly. The result, with Juris Upatnieks during the early 1960s, was a new imaging technique that yielded results superior to Gabor's. When they began using a laser as light source with high resolution film, they obtained remarkable three-dimensional images. Their publicity generated a worldwide explosion of scientific and engineering interest.Less

Lensless Photography in America

SEAN F. JOHNSTON

Published in print: 2006-04-06

This chapter discusses another variant of related ideas that was dubbed 'lensless photography' in the USA. Emmett Leith, a research engineer at a military contract establishment, Willow Run Laboratories in Michigan, conceived a technique of processing the images created by synthetic aperture radar. Gradually, from the mid-1950s, he extended these ideas by melding electrical engineering practice with physical optics, both of which were expanding rapidly. The result, with Juris Upatnieks during the early 1960s, was a new imaging technique that yielded results superior to Gabor's. When they began using a laser as light source with high resolution film, they obtained remarkable three-dimensional images. Their publicity generated a worldwide explosion of scientific and engineering interest.

The most wasteful people in world history know the least about what becomes of their waste. Waste Away reveals how North Americans have been shaped by their preferred means of disposal: sanitary ...
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The most wasteful people in world history know the least about what becomes of their waste. Waste Away reveals how North Americans have been shaped by their preferred means of disposal: sanitary landfill. Based on the author’s fieldwork as a common laborer at a large, transnational landfill on the outskirts of Detroit, Michigan, the book argues that waste management constitutes a social relationship whereby our most treasured possessions and places are made to last because the transient materials they shed are removed and sent elsewhere. Ethnography conducted with waste workers shows how they conceal and contain other people’s wastes, all while negotiating the filth of their occupation, holding on to middle-class dreams for their children, and occasionally scavenging worthwhile stuff from the trash to toy and tinker with. Waste Away also traces the circumstances that led one midwestern community to host two landfills and made Michigan a leading importer of foreign waste at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Focusing on local activists opposed to the transnational waste trade with Canada, the book’s ethnography analyzes their attempts to politicize and expose the treatment of waste—removing it so it is out of sight—that many take for granted as a necessity and presumed right. Documenting these different ways of relating to the management of North American rubbish, Waste Away demonstrates the unexpected importance that landfilling has for us all.Less

Waste Away : Working and Living with a North American Landfill

Joshua O. Reno

Published in print: 2016-02-09

The most wasteful people in world history know the least about what becomes of their waste. Waste Away reveals how North Americans have been shaped by their preferred means of disposal: sanitary landfill. Based on the author’s fieldwork as a common laborer at a large, transnational landfill on the outskirts of Detroit, Michigan, the book argues that waste management constitutes a social relationship whereby our most treasured possessions and places are made to last because the transient materials they shed are removed and sent elsewhere. Ethnography conducted with waste workers shows how they conceal and contain other people’s wastes, all while negotiating the filth of their occupation, holding on to middle-class dreams for their children, and occasionally scavenging worthwhile stuff from the trash to toy and tinker with. Waste Away also traces the circumstances that led one midwestern community to host two landfills and made Michigan a leading importer of foreign waste at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Focusing on local activists opposed to the transnational waste trade with Canada, the book’s ethnography analyzes their attempts to politicize and expose the treatment of waste—removing it so it is out of sight—that many take for granted as a necessity and presumed right. Documenting these different ways of relating to the management of North American rubbish, Waste Away demonstrates the unexpected importance that landfilling has for us all.

The hallmark of the radical reform of rape laws was the rejection of the existing legal framework in favour of the introduction of new offences with a different emphasis. The aim was not merely to ...
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The hallmark of the radical reform of rape laws was the rejection of the existing legal framework in favour of the introduction of new offences with a different emphasis. The aim was not merely to change the law’s approach so that it became more in tune with perceptions of sexual assault, but to address directly the problem of processing rape. This chapter examines legislation passed in Michigan, New South Wales, and Canada, and considers wither it fulfilled the expectations of radical reform.Less

Alternative Approaches

Jennifer Temkin

Published in print: 2002-12-05

The hallmark of the radical reform of rape laws was the rejection of the existing legal framework in favour of the introduction of new offences with a different emphasis. The aim was not merely to change the law’s approach so that it became more in tune with perceptions of sexual assault, but to address directly the problem of processing rape. This chapter examines legislation passed in Michigan, New South Wales, and Canada, and considers wither it fulfilled the expectations of radical reform.

Sin City North examines the history of illicit economies in the Detroit-Windsor borderland during the post-World War II period. Karibo uncovers a thriving illegal border culture in the bars, ...
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Sin City North examines the history of illicit economies in the Detroit-Windsor borderland during the post-World War II period. Karibo uncovers a thriving illegal border culture in the bars, brothels, dance halls, and jazz clubs that emerged around the busiest crossing point between the United States and Canada. Prostitution and illegal drug economies gained renewed importance at a time when suburbanization, industrial decline, and racial segregation were re-shaping the region. For many residents, vice industries provided much-needed income in the fledgling labor market. Yet, the increasing visibility of illicit economies on city streets—and the growing number of African American and French Canadian women working in illegal trades—provoked strong reactions from moral reformers. Framing their efforts within the context of the Cold War, these interest groups worked together across the border in order to eliminate so-called immoral outsiders from their communities. This critical study demonstrates that struggles over the meaning of vice evolved into much more than defining the legal status of particular activities; they were also crucial avenues through which men and women attempted to define productive citizenship and community in the postwar urban borderland.Less

Sin City North : Sex, Drugs, and Citizenship in the Detroit-Windsor Borderland

Holly M. Karibo

Published in print: 2015-10-26

Sin City North examines the history of illicit economies in the Detroit-Windsor borderland during the post-World War II period. Karibo uncovers a thriving illegal border culture in the bars, brothels, dance halls, and jazz clubs that emerged around the busiest crossing point between the United States and Canada. Prostitution and illegal drug economies gained renewed importance at a time when suburbanization, industrial decline, and racial segregation were re-shaping the region. For many residents, vice industries provided much-needed income in the fledgling labor market. Yet, the increasing visibility of illicit economies on city streets—and the growing number of African American and French Canadian women working in illegal trades—provoked strong reactions from moral reformers. Framing their efforts within the context of the Cold War, these interest groups worked together across the border in order to eliminate so-called immoral outsiders from their communities. This critical study demonstrates that struggles over the meaning of vice evolved into much more than defining the legal status of particular activities; they were also crucial avenues through which men and women attempted to define productive citizenship and community in the postwar urban borderland.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, game theory became caught up in a heated and chaotic set of debates about nuclear strategy and the possibility of arms control Bertrand Russell and Herman Kahn ...
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In the late 1950s and early 1960s, game theory became caught up in a heated and chaotic set of debates about nuclear strategy and the possibility of arms control Bertrand Russell and Herman Kahn invoked the game of “chicken” in discussions of international brinksmanship, and the “Prisoner’s Dilemma” emerged as a model of the Cold War arms race. Simultaneously, the problem of how to behave rationally when faced with such games became perhaps the central problem of the age. This chapter provides a window onto these debates by examining the use of game theory by a community of social and behavioral scientists affiliated with the University of Michigan’s Mental Health Research Institute and Center for Research on Conflict Resolution during this period. Here, game theory proved a powerful notational device capable of facilitating several interventions of behavioral science into debates over arms control and weapons policy. But while game theory could facilitate conversations across research scales and disciplinary divides, despite the hopes of some, it proved less successful at providing principles of rationality to forge consensus on how to solve problems of conflict resolution and arms control.Less

Game Theory and Practice in the Postwar Human Sciences

Paul Erickson

Published in print: 2015-11-04

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, game theory became caught up in a heated and chaotic set of debates about nuclear strategy and the possibility of arms control Bertrand Russell and Herman Kahn invoked the game of “chicken” in discussions of international brinksmanship, and the “Prisoner’s Dilemma” emerged as a model of the Cold War arms race. Simultaneously, the problem of how to behave rationally when faced with such games became perhaps the central problem of the age. This chapter provides a window onto these debates by examining the use of game theory by a community of social and behavioral scientists affiliated with the University of Michigan’s Mental Health Research Institute and Center for Research on Conflict Resolution during this period. Here, game theory proved a powerful notational device capable of facilitating several interventions of behavioral science into debates over arms control and weapons policy. But while game theory could facilitate conversations across research scales and disciplinary divides, despite the hopes of some, it proved less successful at providing principles of rationality to forge consensus on how to solve problems of conflict resolution and arms control.

Coexistence was a strategy employed by many Indians, even when their new neighbors were despised enemies. This chapter examines Fort Michilimackinac, the important trade depot that guarded the ...
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Coexistence was a strategy employed by many Indians, even when their new neighbors were despised enemies. This chapter examines Fort Michilimackinac, the important trade depot that guarded the Mackinac strait between Lakes Michigan and Huron. Odawas and Ojibwas grated at the news that their French trading partners had ceded this important point to the hated British at the close of the Seven Years' War. After first attacking and overcoming the fort at the straits, local natives accepted the reality of British occupation and used their mastery of foodways to ensure their importance to the new British regime and reinvigorate trade. One British trade good, alcohol, was a troubling but highly desired commodity. While this relationship lasted, through war and peace, food and drink defined a system of social interdependence that challenges deterministic economic models of Indian decline.Less

The Greatest Mart of All Trade: : Food, Drink, and Interdependence at Michilimackinac, 1761–1796

Daniel Ingram

Published in print: 2012-02-05

Coexistence was a strategy employed by many Indians, even when their new neighbors were despised enemies. This chapter examines Fort Michilimackinac, the important trade depot that guarded the Mackinac strait between Lakes Michigan and Huron. Odawas and Ojibwas grated at the news that their French trading partners had ceded this important point to the hated British at the close of the Seven Years' War. After first attacking and overcoming the fort at the straits, local natives accepted the reality of British occupation and used their mastery of foodways to ensure their importance to the new British regime and reinvigorate trade. One British trade good, alcohol, was a troubling but highly desired commodity. While this relationship lasted, through war and peace, food and drink defined a system of social interdependence that challenges deterministic economic models of Indian decline.

The archaeology of academia is not new. For decades both faculty and cultural resource management archaeologists have endeavored to reveal and salvage the ephemeral traces of these educational ...
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The archaeology of academia is not new. For decades both faculty and cultural resource management archaeologists have endeavored to reveal and salvage the ephemeral traces of these educational institutions and their surrounding community. Often they have been one step ahead of the bulldozers. In 1995, Santa Clara University established an Archaeology Research Lab to coordinate campus-focused research, provide oversight for cultural resources, support teaching efforts, and curate artifacts and supporting documentation generated during campus construction and research projects. The Saints' Rest project of 2005 proved to be a watershed event for archaeology at Michigan State University. The Archaeology Research Lab has worked closely with the Santa Clara University Archives and faculty from environmental studies, history, and modern languages. They also offer opportunities for donors who wish to leave a legacy, while enhancing the image of the university as a place where education occurs throughout the campus.Less

Hail to Thee, O Alma Mater : Considering the Archaeology of Academia

RUSSELL K. SKOWRONEK

Published in print: 2010-03-01

The archaeology of academia is not new. For decades both faculty and cultural resource management archaeologists have endeavored to reveal and salvage the ephemeral traces of these educational institutions and their surrounding community. Often they have been one step ahead of the bulldozers. In 1995, Santa Clara University established an Archaeology Research Lab to coordinate campus-focused research, provide oversight for cultural resources, support teaching efforts, and curate artifacts and supporting documentation generated during campus construction and research projects. The Saints' Rest project of 2005 proved to be a watershed event for archaeology at Michigan State University. The Archaeology Research Lab has worked closely with the Santa Clara University Archives and faculty from environmental studies, history, and modern languages. They also offer opportunities for donors who wish to leave a legacy, while enhancing the image of the university as a place where education occurs throughout the campus.

This chapter addresses the relationship between crime and lack of entrepreneurial opportunities by examining the connection between self-admitted drug dealing and labor force behavior. It uses prison ...
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This chapter addresses the relationship between crime and lack of entrepreneurial opportunities by examining the connection between self-admitted drug dealing and labor force behavior. It uses prison data from California, Michigan, and Texas to provide a basis for examining the characteristics of self-described drug dealers. Quantitative measures of criminal preferences and motivations for engaging crime are used to assess their impacts on both employment and crime.Less

Crime, Poverty, and Entrepreneurship

Samuel L. Myers

Published in print: 2004-11-10

This chapter addresses the relationship between crime and lack of entrepreneurial opportunities by examining the connection between self-admitted drug dealing and labor force behavior. It uses prison data from California, Michigan, and Texas to provide a basis for examining the characteristics of self-described drug dealers. Quantitative measures of criminal preferences and motivations for engaging crime are used to assess their impacts on both employment and crime.

This chapter opens with a series of “snapshots,” in words, of America today. It describes the people the authors met on a five-day road trip in early 2009, from Washington, DC, to Michigan and into ...
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This chapter opens with a series of “snapshots,” in words, of America today. It describes the people the authors met on a five-day road trip in early 2009, from Washington, DC, to Michigan and into the mid-South. It is important to understand, up front, that the growing disaster the authors documented in the 1980s remained with them, that the pain found in those years persisted, and that the contradictions have not been resolved. After these snapshots, the chapter's narrative is roughly chronological. First, it reaches back to the 1980s. Some of these stories from the book Journey to Nowhere are being retold in a different and shorter form, with new material. The chapter introduces the city of Youngstown, destroyed by the closing of steel mills and the resulting loss of tens of thousands of well-paid jobs. It also introduces former steelworkers such as Joe Marshall Sr. and his son and Ken Platt.Less

Snapshots from the Road 2009

Dale Maharidge

Published in print: 2011-06-06

This chapter opens with a series of “snapshots,” in words, of America today. It describes the people the authors met on a five-day road trip in early 2009, from Washington, DC, to Michigan and into the mid-South. It is important to understand, up front, that the growing disaster the authors documented in the 1980s remained with them, that the pain found in those years persisted, and that the contradictions have not been resolved. After these snapshots, the chapter's narrative is roughly chronological. First, it reaches back to the 1980s. Some of these stories from the book Journey to Nowhere are being retold in a different and shorter form, with new material. The chapter introduces the city of Youngstown, destroyed by the closing of steel mills and the resulting loss of tens of thousands of well-paid jobs. It also introduces former steelworkers such as Joe Marshall Sr. and his son and Ken Platt.

People in Youngstown who had come to Texas seeking work told tales of harassment and jail, this chapter states. One man said police escorted him to the freeway and told him never to return to the ...
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People in Youngstown who had come to Texas seeking work told tales of harassment and jail, this chapter states. One man said police escorted him to the freeway and told him never to return to the city. Houston police spokeswoman Phymeon Jackson admitted that there indeed had been complaints, especially from Michigan people, and cited the anti-northern bias prevailing in the city. The authors stood next to the the camp Das Boot and studied three canvas tents across the campground, which were clustered around a wooden platform. There were two cars: one with Ohio plates, the other from Michigan. The latter made the owners “blacks,” in the parlance of Houstoners, who used this pejorative because of the hue of the Michigan tags, not the owners' skin color, though the sentiment was the same. The authors spent the good part of a week living next to Bonnie and James Alexander and their two children—Jennifer, twelve, and Matthew, eleven—and their neighbors, Cindi and John.Less

Home Sweet Tent

Dale Maharidge

Published in print: 2011-06-06

People in Youngstown who had come to Texas seeking work told tales of harassment and jail, this chapter states. One man said police escorted him to the freeway and told him never to return to the city. Houston police spokeswoman Phymeon Jackson admitted that there indeed had been complaints, especially from Michigan people, and cited the anti-northern bias prevailing in the city. The authors stood next to the the camp Das Boot and studied three canvas tents across the campground, which were clustered around a wooden platform. There were two cars: one with Ohio plates, the other from Michigan. The latter made the owners “blacks,” in the parlance of Houstoners, who used this pejorative because of the hue of the Michigan tags, not the owners' skin color, though the sentiment was the same. The authors spent the good part of a week living next to Bonnie and James Alexander and their two children—Jennifer, twelve, and Matthew, eleven—and their neighbors, Cindi and John.

One of the principal goals of the Saints' Rest archaeological work, conducted as a field school by the Department of Anthropology at Michigan State University in the summer of 2005, was to ...
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One of the principal goals of the Saints' Rest archaeological work, conducted as a field school by the Department of Anthropology at Michigan State University in the summer of 2005, was to investigate the building's function. This task seemed relatively unambiguous. This past residence hall had modern counterparts that could surely provide analogies useful in interpreting the past lifeways. However, one had to be careful in making comparisons over a century in which many things had changed. This chapter examines the building at the scale of both the larger community of which it was a part and the members of this institutional household. This helps in drawing analogies to discern the nature and distribution of boarding-hall activities in the archaeological record.Less

Function, Circumstance, and the Archaeological Record : The Elusive Past at Saints’ Rest

RUSSELL K. SKOWRONEKKENNETH E. LEWIS

Published in print: 2010-03-01

One of the principal goals of the Saints' Rest archaeological work, conducted as a field school by the Department of Anthropology at Michigan State University in the summer of 2005, was to investigate the building's function. This task seemed relatively unambiguous. This past residence hall had modern counterparts that could surely provide analogies useful in interpreting the past lifeways. However, one had to be careful in making comparisons over a century in which many things had changed. This chapter examines the building at the scale of both the larger community of which it was a part and the members of this institutional household. This helps in drawing analogies to discern the nature and distribution of boarding-hall activities in the archaeological record.

This chapter situates Robert Ashley's formative years in his home state of Michigan. Born on March 28, 1930 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Ashley would grow up in the musically prestigious shadow of the ...
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This chapter situates Robert Ashley's formative years in his home state of Michigan. Born on March 28, 1930 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Ashley would grow up in the musically prestigious shadow of the University of Michigan, where many famous composers have taught, although he would never teach there himself. Ashley earned his bachelor's degree from that university, however, and later worked on a doctorate there, which he never completed. On and off, the town remained his center of activities for 39 years, and he even referred to it as “Headquarters.” To some extent, he thinks of his operas as drawn from the melody of the distinctive southeastern Michigan accent. Ashley would spend the early part of his creative life in Ann Arbor as co-founder and co-director of the ONCE festivals.Less

The Vessel of the Eternal Present : The Early Years

Kyle Gann

Published in print: 2012-12-01

This chapter situates Robert Ashley's formative years in his home state of Michigan. Born on March 28, 1930 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Ashley would grow up in the musically prestigious shadow of the University of Michigan, where many famous composers have taught, although he would never teach there himself. Ashley earned his bachelor's degree from that university, however, and later worked on a doctorate there, which he never completed. On and off, the town remained his center of activities for 39 years, and he even referred to it as “Headquarters.” To some extent, he thinks of his operas as drawn from the melody of the distinctive southeastern Michigan accent. Ashley would spend the early part of his creative life in Ann Arbor as co-founder and co-director of the ONCE festivals.

In this prologue, Harry Haywood talks about an eventful date in his life: July 28, 1919. On that day, he literally stepped into a battle that was to last the rest of his life. Exactly three months ...
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In this prologue, Harry Haywood talks about an eventful date in his life: July 28, 1919. On that day, he literally stepped into a battle that was to last the rest of his life. Exactly three months after mustering out of the U.S. army fighting in World War I, he found himself in the midst of one of the bloodiest race riots in U.S. history. For Haywood, it was certainly a most dramatic return to the realities of American democracy. He had a job as a waiter on the Michigan Central Railroad at the time. In July, he was working the Wolverine, the crack Michigan Central train between Chicago and New York. On July 27, the Wolverine left on a regular run to St. Thomas, Canada. Passing through Detroit, they heard news that a race riot had broken out in Chicago. The following day, Southside Chicago, the Black ghetto, was like a besieged city.Less

Prologue

Harry HaywoodGwendolyn Midlo Hall

Published in print: 2012-03-01

In this prologue, Harry Haywood talks about an eventful date in his life: July 28, 1919. On that day, he literally stepped into a battle that was to last the rest of his life. Exactly three months after mustering out of the U.S. army fighting in World War I, he found himself in the midst of one of the bloodiest race riots in U.S. history. For Haywood, it was certainly a most dramatic return to the realities of American democracy. He had a job as a waiter on the Michigan Central Railroad at the time. In July, he was working the Wolverine, the crack Michigan Central train between Chicago and New York. On July 27, the Wolverine left on a regular run to St. Thomas, Canada. Passing through Detroit, they heard news that a race riot had broken out in Chicago. The following day, Southside Chicago, the Black ghetto, was like a besieged city.

This introductory chapter describes the Skillman Foundation’s vision for the Good Neighborhoods program and introduces the six communities that were the target of the Foundation’s work for change and ...
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This introductory chapter describes the Skillman Foundation’s vision for the Good Neighborhoods program and introduces the six communities that were the target of the Foundation’s work for change and the theories of change. The chapter further addresses the emergence and development of the partnership between an embedded foundation and the University of Michigan School of Social Work, which led to the creation, organization, and funding of the Technical Assistance Center (TAC). The organization, processes, and planning required for the implementation of the change process is described. The chapter provides a context for the process that evolved during the economic and social catastrophes that impacted Detroit.Less

Introduction to Good Neighborhoods

Paula Allen-Meares

Published in print: 2017-07-25

This introductory chapter describes the Skillman Foundation’s vision for the Good Neighborhoods program and introduces the six communities that were the target of the Foundation’s work for change and the theories of change. The chapter further addresses the emergence and development of the partnership between an embedded foundation and the University of Michigan School of Social Work, which led to the creation, organization, and funding of the Technical Assistance Center (TAC). The organization, processes, and planning required for the implementation of the change process is described. The chapter provides a context for the process that evolved during the economic and social catastrophes that impacted Detroit.